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<h1>Announcing Grid Engine 6.1 Preview Binaries<br></h1>
Regensburg, Germany -- December 13, 2006
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Grid Engine 6.1 Preview courtesy binaries are now ready for download.
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Grid Engine 6.1 will be the next step in the evolution of the Grid Engine
software. This release will help administrators to better manage access to
computational resources in a cluster and continues to improve its excellent
scalability in large clusters with a huge amount of jobs.
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Minor features may be added to the final Grid Engine 6.1 release. A Beta
program is planned to be started in February 2006.
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New functionality delivered with this preview release:
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Resource Quotas allow to limit the maximum number of running jobs per
user, user group, projects on arbitrary resources like queues, hosts,
memory, software licenses. A firewall-like rule syntax allows an
unprecedented flexibility in defining Grid Engine Resource Quotas (RQ). 
The man pages qquota(1), sge_resource_quota(5) and qconf(1) describe
the new functionality. The design of the Resource Quotas can be found
here<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a    
href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/source/browse/*checkout*/gridengine/doc/devel/rfe/ResourceQuotaSpecification.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/source/browse/*checkout*/gridengine/doc/devel/rfe/ResourceQuotaSpecification.html
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the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo) is now part of
the open source project and included with the courtesy binaries.
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support for Mac OS/X on the x86 platform
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support for Linux on Itanium (IA64)
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a Solaris 10 DTrace script supports monitoring and helps to do a
bottleneck analysis
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with the help of our community members job online usage is now
supported for Apple Mac OS/X, IBM AIX and HP HP/UX
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for developers an early access to a Java API (JGDI) to Grid Engine will
be provided as a seperate download
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The courtesy binaries are available at<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/download_preview.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/download_preview.html</a><br>
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The corresponding source code tag in the "gridengine" and "arco" project CVS repository has the name<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">V61preview_TAG</span><br>
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A snapshot of the sources is available at the <a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">Documents & files</a> page:<br>
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<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/104/sge-V61preview_TAG-src.tar.gz">sge-V61preview_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/105/arco-V61preview_TAG-src.tar.gz">arco-V61preview_TAG-src.tar.gz</a>
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